Anyone still wonder why California’s fiscal mess is such a mess? Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was banking (literally) on the federal government to hand over nearly $7 billion, without which the state can’t even come close to filling its expected $20 billion deficit.

Mark Landsbaum is a Christian husband, father, grandfather and journalist who has written for a living for 43 years, ever since discovering he had no particular talents. He can be found on Facebook and LinkedIn, and in the archives of the Orange County Register, where he wrote a column for 10 years.

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